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Spiritualism was so rampant in the 19th century, you couldn't throw a rock without hitting someone who claimed to speak to the dead, or would fall into a trance and write as though the ghosts themselves were operating their hands.

So many stories of spiritualism were eventually found out as nothing but magic tricks, illusions of light and sound to convince audiences that the other side wasn't so far away.

Nowadays, when something that amazing happens, we're skeptical.

It's not that we don't want to believe.

We do.

But we're afraid to put our faith in it for fear of being let down.

We're worried it's being done for fame or money.

But what happens when someone who doesn't need the money or fame suddenly develops special gifts?

Is it more believable then?

And to answer that question, we need to talk about Hildegard.

Hildegard was born in Bermensheim, Germany, in 1098.

She was the tenth child of wealthy noble parents, and was sent to live with a nun, Jutta von Spahnheim, when she was eight years old.

Jutta cared for the girl, and taught her in a small cloister attached to the monastery there, about 66 miles northwest of her hometown.